Server-Push

Question

I read somewhere that Flex Data Services provides Server-Push
functionality. That is, the server starts a conversation with the
client. It's obvious that, In order to such thing ocurr, there has
to be a persistent connection between server and client.
I've being reading about Data Management Service to learn how
to implement this Server-Push and all I see is about a method
called Fill() that is thriggered from the client and syncronizes
it's data with the server. But it's not server-push
Does it really exist?

Answer 1

Hi,
When you create a DataService and fill your collection. The
collection becomes managed. You don't have to call fill again if
there is any change in the data. Server pushs updates to clients
when the client's dataservice is using rtmp channel. It is a live
connection between the server and the client. For example,
you fill(collection, "hqsql", from products where price <
100). If one of the product's price increases, server push a
message to your collection to remove it. If a product's product's
price decrease, it will be added to the collection. The push is
happened based on your fill method.
William Chan